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Marcus Junius Brutus (/ ˈ b r uː t ə s /; Latin pronunciation: [ˈmaːrkʊs juːniʊs ˈbruːtʊs]; c. 85 BC – 23 October 42 BC) was a Roman politician, orator, [2] and the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar.
The divorce followed the murder of Antistia's father in 82 BCE, carried out by Marian supporters under the praetor Junius Damasippus, who viewed Antistius as unreliable due to his marriage alliance with Pompey. Her mother, Calpurnia, also killed herself upon hearing of the divorce, which Plutarch described as an 'indignity'.
Marcus Junius Brutus (died 77 BC) was a plebeian tribune of the Roman Republic in 83 BC and the founder of the colony in Capua. He was an associate of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus , who led a revolt against the senate after the death of Sulla .
Porcia (c. 73 BC – June 43 BC), [2] [3] occasionally spelled Portia, especially in 18th-century English literature, [4] was a Roman woman who lived in the 1st century BC. She was the daughter of Marcus Porcius Cato Uticensis (Cato the Younger) and his first wife Atilia.
Calpurnia was either the third or fourth wife of Julius Caesar, and the one to whom he was married at the time of his assassination.According to contemporary sources, she was a good and faithful wife, in spite of her husband's infidelity; and, forewarned of the attempt on his life, she endeavored in vain to prevent his murder.
Chief among them were Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus. Although Cassius was "the moving spirit" in the plot, winning over the chief assassins to the cause of tyrannicide, Brutus, with his family's history of deposing Rome's kings, became their leader. [58]
In 195 BC, Brutus, serving in the capacity of tribune of the plebs, together with Marcus Porcius Cato, unsuccessfully attempted to stop the repeal of the Lex Oppia. [1] In 193 BC, he served as aedile. In 191 BC, he dedicated the Temple of Cybele. In 178 BC, Brutus was elected consul together with Aulus Manlius Vulso. [2]
After about thirteen years of marriage, Cornelia died early in her husband's quaestorship, which occurred in BC 69 or 68. [iv] [8] Caesar was due to depart for Spain, and had already pronounced the funeral oration of his aunt, Julia, from the rostra, as was customary for elderly Roman matrons.